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QA-Paradigm\n\n- **The Natural Language Decathlon: Multitask Learning as Question Answering. 2018**  By Salesforce  [[arxiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08730) [[code]](https://github.com/salesforce/decaNLP)​\n\n### Sentiment Analysis\n\n- **Sentiment classification towards question-answering with hierarchical matching network.** EMNLP 2018. [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1401/) [[code]](https://github.com/clshenNLP/QASC)\n  Chenlin Shen, Changlong Sun, Jingjing Wang, Yangyang Kang, Shoushan Li, Xiaozhong Liu, Luo Si, Min Zhang, and Guodong Zhou.\n\n\n### Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis \n\n- **Question-Driven Span Labeling Model for Aspect–Opinion Pair Extraction**.  AAAI 2021 [[paper]](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17523)\n  Lei Gao, Yulong Wang, Tongcun Liu, Jingyu Wang, Lei Zhang, Jianxin Liao\n\n- **A Joint Training Dual-MRC Framework for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis** AAAI 2021 [[paper]](https://www.aaai.org/AAAI21Papers/AAAI-5353.MaoY.pdf) \n  Yue Mao, Yi Shen, Chao Yu, LongJun Cai\n\n- **Bidirectional Machine Reading Comprehension for Aspect Sentiment Triplet Extraction** [[paper]](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17500) [[arxiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07665) [[code]](https://github.com/chenshaowei57/BMRC)  AAAI 2021 \n  Shaowei Chen, Yu Wang, Jie Liu, Yuelin Wang\n\n- **Utilizing BERT for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis via Constructing Auxiliary Sentence.** NAACL 2019. [[paper]](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1035/) [[code]](https://github.com/HSLCY/ABSA-BERT-pair)\n  Chi Sun, Luyao Huang, Xipeng Qiu. \n\n- **BERT Post-Training for Review Reading Comprehension and Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis**. NAACL 2019. [[paper]](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N19-1242.pdf) [[code]](https://github.com/howardhsu/BERT-for-RRC-ABSA) [[dataset]](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NGH5bqzEx6aDlYJ7O3hepZF4i_p4iMR8/view?usp=sharing)  \n  Hu Xu, Bing Liu, Lei Shu and Philip S. Yu. \n\n- **Aspect Sentiment Classification Towards Question-Answering with Reinforced Bidirectional Attention Network.** ACL 2019. [[paper]](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1345)\n  Jingjing Wang, Changlong Sun, Shoushan Li, Xiaozhong Liu, Min Zhang, Luo Si and Guodong Zhou.\n\n\n- **Document-Level Multi-Aspect Sentiment Classification as Machine Comprehension.** EMNLP 2017 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/D17-1217/) [[code]](https://github.com/HKUST-KnowComp/DMSC)\n  Yichun Yin, Yangqiu Song, Ming Zhang\n\n\n### Entity-Relation Extraction  \n\n- **Consistent Inference for Dialogue Relation Extraction.** IJCAI 2021\n\n- **Asking Effective and Diverse Questions: A Machine Reading Comprehension based Framework for Joint Entity-Relation Extraction.** 2020 IJCAI [[paper]](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/546) [[code]](https://github.com/TanyaZhao/MRC4ERE_plus)\n  Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li  \n\n- **Entity-Relation Extraction as Multi-Turn Question Answering.** ACL 2019  By Jiwei Li  [[paper]](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1129/) [[code]](https://github.com/ShannonAI/Entity-Relation-As-Multi-Turn-QA)\n  Xiaoya Li, Fan Yin, Zijun Sun, Xiayu Li, Arianna Yuan, Duo Chai, Mingxin Zhou, Jiwei Li\n\n- **Zero-Shot Relation Extraction via Reading Comprehension.** CoNLL 2017 [[paper]](https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/K17-1034/) [[code\u0026data]](http://nlp.cs.washington.edu/zeroshot/)\n  Omer Levy, Minjoon Seo, Eunsol Choi, Luke Zettlemoyer\n\n\n### Event Extraction\n\n- **What the Role Is vs. What Plays the Role: Semi-Supervised Event Argument Extraction via Dual Question Answering.** AAAI  2021  [[paper]](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17720) \n  Yang Zhou, Yubo Chen, Jun Zhao, Yin Wu, Jiexin Xu, Jinlong Li. \n\n- **Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural Questions.** EMNLP 2020. [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.49/) [[code]](https://github.com/xinyadu/eeqa) \n  Xinya Du, Claire Cardie\n\n- **Event Extraction as Multi-turn Question Answering.** EMNLP Findings 2020. [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.73/)   \nFayuan Li, Weihua Peng, Yuguang Chen, Quan Wang, Lu Pan, Yajuan Lyu, Yong Zhu\n- **Event Extraction as Machine Reading Comprehension.** EMNLP 2020.  [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.128/) [[code]](https://github.com/jianliu-ml/EEasMRC)\n  Jian Liu ,Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu\n\n### NER \n\n- **A Unified MRC Framework for Named Entity Recognition**. 2020 ACL. [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.519/) [[code]](https://github.com/ShannonAI/mrc-for-flat-nested-ner) [[new code]](https://github.com/wanglaiqi/mrc-for-flat-nested-ner)\nXiaoya Li, Jingrong Feng, Yuxian Meng, Qinghong Han, Fei Wu, Jiwei Li\n\n### Summarization \n\n- **Improving Factual Consistency of Abstractive Summarization via Question Answering.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.536/)\n  Feng Nan, Cicero Nogueira dos Santos, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Kathleen McKeown, Ramesh Nallapati, Dejiao Zhang, Zhiguo Wang, Andrew O. Arnold, Bing Xiang\n- **QMSum: A New Benchmark for Query-based Multi-domain Meeting Summarization.** NAACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.472/) [[code]](https://github.com/Yale-LILY/QMSum)\n  Ming Zhong, Da Yin, Tao Yu, Ahmad Zaidi, Mutethia Mutuma, Rahul Jha, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Asli Celikyilmaz, Yang Liu, Xipeng Qiu, Dragomir Radev\n\n### Coreference Resolution \n\n- **Coreference Reasoning in Machine Reading Comprehension** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.448/) [[code]](https://github.com/UKPLab/coref-reasoning-in-qa) \n  Mingzhu Wu, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Dan Roth, Iryna Gurevych  \n\n- **Ellipsis Resolution as Question Answering: An Evaluation.** EACL 2021. [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.68/) [[code]](https://github.com/rahular/ellipsis-baselines)\n  Rahul Aralikatte, Matthew Lamm, Daniel Hardt, Anders Søgaard\n\n- **CorefQA: Coreference Resolution as Query-based Span Prediction.**   ACL 2020 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.622/) [[code]](https://github.com/ShannonAI/CorefQA)\n  Wei Wu, Fei Wang, Arianna Yuan, Fei Wu, Jiwei Li\n\n- **Bridging Anaphora Resolution as Question Answering.** ACL 2020 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.132) [[code]](https://github.com/IBM/bridging-resolution)\n  Yufang Hou  \n\n\n### SQL Generation \n\n- **SQL Generation via Machine Reading Comprehension**. COLING 2020. [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.31/)[[code]](https://github.com/nl2sql/QA-SQL)\n  Zeyu Yan, Jianqiang Ma, Yang Zhang, Jianping Shen\n\n### Entity Linking \n\n- **Read, Retrospect, Select: An MRC Framework to Short Text Entity Linking** [[paper]](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17528) 2021 AAAI\n  Yingjie Gu, Xiaoye Qu,  Zhefeng Wang,  Baoxing Huai, Nicholas Jing Yuan,  Xiaolin Gui\n\n### Slot Filling\n\n- **Cross-Domain Slot Filling as Machine Reading Comprehension.**  IJCAI 2021\n\n### Semantic Role Labeling\n- **Crowdsourcing Question-Answer Meaning Representations**. NAACL 2018 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/N18-2089/) [[code]](https://github.com/uwnlp/qamr)\n  Julian Michael, Gabriel Stanovsky, Luheng He, Ido Dagan, Luke Zettlemoyer\n\n- **Question-Answer Driven Semantic Role Labeling: Using Natural Language to Annotate Natural Language**. EMNLP 2015 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/D15-1076)\n  Luheng He, Mike Lewis, Luke Zettlemoyer\n\n\n\n\n​\n\n\n## 2. Generation-Paradigm\n\n### NER\n\n- **A Unified Generative Framework for Various NER Subtasks.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.451/) [[code]](https://github.com/yhcc/BARTNER)\n  Hang Yan, Tao Gui, Junqi Dai, Qipeng Guo, Zheng Zhang, Xipeng Qiu\n\n- **Neural Architectures for Nested NER through Linearization** ACL 2019 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1527/) [[code]](https://github.com/ufal/acl2019_nested_ner) \n  Jana Strakov´a, Milan Straka, and Jan Hajic.\n\n### Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis\n\n- **Towards Generative Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.64/) [[code]](https://github.com/IsakZhang/Generative-ABSA)\n  Wenxuan Zhang, Xin Li, Yang Deng, Lidong Bing, Wai Lam\n\n- **A Unified Generative Framework for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.188/) [[code]](https://github.com/yhcc/BARTABSA)\n  Hang Yan, Junqi Dai, Tuo Ji, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang\n\n\n### Event Extraction\n\n- **Text2Event: Controllable Sequence-to-Structure Generation for End-to-end Event Extraction.** ACL 2021  [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.217/) [[code]](https://github.com/luyaojie/text2event)\n  Yaojie Lu  Hongyu Lin  Jin Xu  Xianpei Han  Jialong Tang  Annan Li  Le Sun Meng Liao Shaoyi Chen\n\n### Entity-Relation Extraction\n\n- **Template Filling with Generative Transformers.**  2021 NAACL [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.70/) [[code]](https://github.com/xinyadu/gtt)\n  Xinya Du, Alexander Rush, Claire Cardie\n\n- **Contrastive Triple Extraction with Generative Transformer.** 2021 AAAI  [[paper]](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17677) [[blog]](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI2ODM5OTEyMA==\u0026mid=2247484597\u0026idx=1\u0026sn=0a6302f88f4e891fc894d525f6e705d6\u0026chksm=eaf163cadd86eadc172754536ea9c0f1e4b99f295fce751f0e691283fcfd21a18f1b094ae15e\u0026mpshare=1\u0026scene=23\u0026srcid=0623J3VED0Rn5h3JNya7bg8o\u0026sharer_sharetime=1624457214780\u0026sharer_shareid=e3fac610a51f80cbddf092286e1a80a1#rd)  ZJUKG \n  Hongbin Ye, Ningyu Zhang, Shumin Deng, Mosha Chen, Chuanqi Tan, Fei Huang, Huajun Chen\n\n- **A Unified Multi-Task Learning Framework for Joint Extraction of Entities and Relations.** AAAI 2021 [[paper]](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17707)  BUAA\n  Tianyang Zhao, Zhao Yan, Yunbo Cao, Zhoujun Li\n\n\n- **Extracting Relational Facts by an End-to-End Neural Model with Copy Mechanism.**  ACL 2018  [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1047/) \n  Xiangrong Zeng, Daojian Zeng, Shizhu He, Kang Liu,and Jun Zhao.\n\n\n\n​\n\n## 3. Span-Based-Paradigm\n\n- **Span-based Semantic Parsing for Compositional Generalization.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.74/) [[code]](https://github.com/jonathanherzig/span-based-sp)\n  Jonathan Herzig，Jonathan Berant\n\n- **A Span-Based Model for Joint Overlapped and Discontinuous Named Entity Recognition.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.372/) [[code]](https://github.com/foxlf823/sodner) \n  Fei Li, ZhiChao Lin, Meishan Zhang, Donghong Ji\n\n- **SpanNER: Named EntityRe-/Recognition as Span Prediction.** 2021 ACL [[arxiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00641) [[code]](https://github.com/neulab/SpanNER) [[demo]](http://spanner.sh/) CMU\n  Jinlan Fu, Xuanjing Huang, Pengfei Liu\n\n- **Generalizing Natural Language Analysis through Span-relation Representations.** ACL 2020   [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.192/) [[code]](https://github.com/neulab/cmu-multinlp)   CMU\n  Zhengbao Jiang, Wei Xu, Jun Araki, Graham Neubig\n\n- **Open-domain targeted sentiment analysis via span-based extraction and classification.** ACL 2019 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1051/) [[code]](https://github.com/huminghao16/SpanABSA)\n  Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Dongsheng Li, Yiwei Lv\n\n- ​**A Span-based Joint Model for Opinion Target Extraction and Target Sentiment** ACL 2019  [[paper]](https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2019/0762)\n  Yan Zhou, Longtao Huang, Tao Guo, Jizhong Han, Songlin Hu\n\n\n\n​\n\n\n## 4. Dependency Parsing-Paradigm\n\n- **Structured Sentiment Analysis as Dependency Graph Parsing.** ACL 2021 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.263/) [[code]](https://github.com/jerbarnes/sentiment_graphs)\n  Jeremy Barnes, Robin Kurtz, Stephan Oepen, Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal\n\n- **Named Entity Recognition as Dependency Parsing.** ACL 2020 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.577/)\n  Juntao Yu, Bernd Bohnet, Massimo Poesio\n \n\n\n​\n\n## 5. Semantic Segmentation-Paradigm\n\n- **Document-level Relation Extraction as Semantic Segmentation.** IJCAI 2021 [[arxiv]](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03618) [[code]](https://github.com/zjunlp/DocuNet)  [[blog]](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI2ODM5OTEyMA==\u0026mid=2247484958\u0026idx=1\u0026sn=df8c30d5ac441d6946a9e1873489899f\u0026chksm=eaf16161dd86e8771dde37a15d2bad870fb729afe69f286fbbb7b93307f7a044a4b2d3f9b0a2\u0026mpshare=1\u0026scene=23\u0026srcid=0623in4pz4nHvQqVLXQIqqHw\u0026sharer_sharetime=1624457166808\u0026sharer_shareid=e3fac610a51f80cbddf092286e1a80a1#rd) \n  Ningyu Zhang, Xiang Chen, Xin Xie, Shumin Deng, Chuanqi Tan, Mosha Chen, Fei Huang, Luo Si, Huajun Chen\n\n\n\n\n​\n\n## 6. Text Matching-Paradigm\n\n- **Extractive Summarization as Text Matching**. ACL 2020 [[paper]](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.552/) [[code]](https://github.com/maszhongming/MatchSum) \n  Ming Zhong, Pengfei Liu, Yiran Chen, Danqing Wang, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsinclaircoder%2Fnlp-paradigmshiftingpapers","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fsinclaircoder%2Fnlp-paradigmshiftingpapers","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsinclaircoder%2Fnlp-paradigmshiftingpapers/lists"}